4º British: Weekly Work (Industrial Revolution)

Here you have the new Weekly Work about the Industrial revolution. The question number 3 is about cinema, so before starting you should watch the following videos of Lumière Brothers on Youtube (less than a minute each one):

Workers leaving the factory

Train arrival

Enjoy the movies... :-)

1º British: Egypt online research

Visit this ecplatz-website and follow the instructions. You will have to download a word document and answer all its questions. For doing that, you will need to do some online research, but you will find some good links on the same page, and also watch some useful videos...

When you finish, send the document, with your name included, as a attached file to blogeducativo08@gmail.com. The last day will be 19 March.

Good luck! J

1º British: Hieroglyphical writting

As you were really interested about this topic yesterday at class, here you have again the Egyptian alphabet... (Remember that letter A can be also written as an arm). You can watch the photo bigger if you click on it. 

But do not worry, we will see another couple of things next week. Enjoy! :-)

3º British: Population and settlement

Here you have the links for the following units and their activities:

•          Population and migration
•          Settlement
•          Weekly Work

As they are important issues, you can get more information by watching this video about a sustainable settlement: Curitibia (Brasil). It lasts only 6 minutes.

In addittion, you can do a review of urban geography before the exam. So I recommend visiting the following links:

1. Librosvivos, published by SM. Remember that in the bottom part of the page are more links with activities ("See what you know", "To know more", "Supplementary Material", etc..). (In Spanish)

2. CATEDU. Also with several sections (planes, history, current growth ...) and activities. (In Spanish)

British: Book review 2012-2013

As the curriculum for the subjetc is complex and really long, some of the lessons will be completed by the students. To begin with, students must read two books and hand-writting a personal review. This work is compulsory and must be returned in the specified date.

Students can read them in English or Spanish, it doesn’t matter, but of course the review must be written in English. This review, hand-written on one side of the sheet, must have the following sections:

• Bibliographic card (title, author, publisher...)
• Abstract (3-4 pages)
• Personal opinion about the book (1 page)

The two reading books for this year are:

1º ESO - British

• La chica del tiempo, by Eva Mª Piquer (Second term)
• Roman Mysteries (vol.1: The thieves of Ostia), by Caroline Lawrence (Translation into Spanish: Misterios Romanos 1: Ladrones en el foro). (Third term)

2º ESO

• La tierra de las papas, by Paloma Bordons (Second term)
• El oro de los sueños, by José Mª Merino (Third term)

4º ESO - British

• Address Unknown (Paradero desconocido), by Kressmann Taylor (First term)
• Animal Farm (Rebelión en la granja), by George Orwell (Second term)

Enjoy the reading! 

3º British: Global Warming

Some people believe that human activities in industrialised countries are changing the world’s climate and the natural greenhouse effect is being altered.

But global warning is a controversial issue. Some people argue that it is not happening because throughout History there have been natural cycles of warming (eg. the Medieval Warm Period) and cooling on Earth (eg. the Little Ice Age between the 11^th and 15^th centuries). 

What do you think about it?

Watch this video from National Geographic and do a small research on the web. Them, answer the following questions as complete as possible:

-         Describe 3 possible impacts of global warming and how people can try to slow down its impact.

-         Why are people uncertain about the causes of global warming?

-         Are you in favour or against the theory of Global Warming? Explain it and give reasons.

It is a compulsory activity and, this time, you will receive a MARK for it. When you finish it, sent the file to blogeducativo08@gmail.com. The deadline for this activity is Tuesday 26 November. 


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Historia de la Música

Actualizo hoy el blog con algo especial: un resumen de la Historia de la Música en formato Scribing (Scribing es una técnica habitual hoy día en grandes empresas para resumir de forma visual conceptos complejos e interrelacionados). Son unos 7 minutos de vídeo y es realmente interesante. Disfrutad!

 

Today I update the blog with something special: a summary of the history of music in Scribing format (Scribing is a technique commonly use nowdays in large companies to visually summarize complex and interrelated concepts). The video lasts about 7 minutes and it is really interesting. Enjoy!